• Committee Management
• Policy & Procedure
• Risk Management
• Compliance
• Planning
• Workforce

Planning is beneficial to sporting clubs in many ways. The main aim of planning is to maintain a positive relationship between the club and its environment. Specifically, planning enables a club to:

• become proactive rather than reactive - to clarify club purposes and direction
• initiate and influence outcomes in favour of the club
• exert more control over its destiny - deciding where it wants to be in the future
• adopt a more systematic approach to change and reduce resistance to change
• improve financial performance and use resources effectively
• increase awareness of its operating environment (for example, competitors, government policy, threats)
• improve organisational control and coordination of activities
• develop teamwork off the field.

Without adequate planning, the club frequently deals only with immediate problmes and fails to consider future needs. Consequently the club:

• tends to function on a random ad hoc basis
• will never seem to have time to anticipate tomorrow's problems
• does not create conditions to deal effectively with the future.

Therefore, to overcome these limitations, a plan is necessary